Sue Forster-Cox, Ph.D., M.P.H., C.H.E.S.

Sue is an Associate Professor in Health Sciences Department at New Mexico State University (NMSU), located in Las Cruces, NM, near the US/Mexico border. She teaches a wide range of graduate and undergraduate courses in public health and health education, including program planning, rural health, foundations of health education, and overseeing all field experience placements for the Department.The emphasis of the Masters of Public Health (MPH) program is community health education, with a focus on the US/Mexico border region. She is also the co-advisor for the online MPH program. Present research interests involve connecting (or reconnecting) people in tribal communities to gardening, to provide fresh food sources, promote exercise, and enhance their ability to self-sustain.

She serves as the Coordinator of the NMSU Fellows and the Master's International programs in the College of Health and Social Services. As a Returned Peace Corps Volunteer from Colombia  (1977-79, malarial parasitiologist and clinic administrator), she is keenly aware of the diverse health and social issues which impact the health of people.

Before joining the faculty at NMSU in 2002, she served, for 20+ years, as an administrator of numerous non-profit, tribal health, and human service programs, throughout New Mexico, Nevada, and Colombia, South America.

Sue resides in Albuquerque, with her husband Warren (who she met in Peace Corps). She commutes between Albuquerque and Las Cruces to work (250 miles one way) most weeks of the semester.  When not at work or volunteering, she and Warren seek to secure as many passport stamps as possible, from all parts of the globe, with independent trips and service trips, such as Habitat for Humanity’s Global Village program or Global Volunteers.